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2. Chest of drawers - Wikipedia

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   The chest drawers were and are called by many names: LAMSAS database contains 37 answers to the request to name a chest of drawers, with "bureau" and "dresser" most popular at 52.5% and 17.5% respectively. [5] Chippendale called them "commode tables" or "commode bureau tables", Hepplewhite used the terms "commodes", "chests of drawers". At the ...

3. Tallboy (furniture) - Wikipedia

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   Whereas the chest of drawers in its familiar form contains three long and two short drawers, the highboy has five, six, or seven long drawers, and two short ones. It is a very late 17th-century development of the smaller chest.

4. Tansu - Wikipedia

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   Apothecary chests with many small drawers to contain medicinal herbs. Because the chests/boxes often needed to be carried by itinerant salesmen, they were often constructed with light-weight kiri (paulownia), [3] or sugi (cedar) wood, and utilized iron hardware only sparingly. [8] Nagamochi kuruma-dansu

5. Old York acquires rare 17th-century chest of drawers

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   The Weare Chest is one of the finest known chests of drawers produced by the shop tradition. Old York Historical Society has purchased a rare Boston chest of drawers that descended in the Weare ...

6. Lowboy - Wikipedia

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   It is a small table with one or two rows of drawers, so called in contradistinction to (and designed to match [2]) the tallboy or highboy chest of drawers. [3] [4]

7. Chest (furniture) - Wikipedia

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   Mexican chest from the viceregal era, at the Franz Mayer Museum. A chest (also called a coffer or kist) is a type of furniture typically having a rectangular structure with four walls and a removable or hinged lid, primarily used for storage, usually of personal items.